It is said that the last few rows of each class are reserved for those students who are considered troublemakers by the teachers. Unfortunately, Gu Han arrived late, and only the last row had a seat left for him and Song Hamma.
The desks in the classroom were all double-seaters, but there was no concept of a desk partner. The other seat was reserved for the sword maidens of the swordsmen. Next to each swordsman sat their own sword maiden.
When Song Hamma tried to sit down, he encountered some trouble. His sword maiden, Zhuyun Tie, was too large, and the desk was clearly too small for her, not even allowing her legs to fit. Helpless, Song Hamma had to go to the administrative office to seek assistance and get a larger desk.
As a result, Gu Han was left alone in the last row. He didn't have much of an opinion about this, but he did have an issue with the student sitting in front of him: Miss Liunian Lin, the future leader of the Liunian family, whose noble status was so high that it could scare anyone to death.
"Miss Liunian Lin, hello!" Gu Han's words were cut off halfway as Liunian Lin covered his mouth with her hand.
"I'm now called Ao Lin. You're not allowed to say my real name!" Liunian Lin said, indicating that she had arranged a new identity for herself. The Liunian surname was too well-known and too rare in this world. Anyone who heard it would instinctively associate it with a family that stood at the pinnacle of the human world. This was certainly not something Liunian Lin wanted.
Hiding her true identity and forging a new one! For ordinary swordsmen, this was an impossible task. No one could modify their identity information under the surveillance of BAT. But for the Liunian family, it was not an impossible task, just a bit troublesome.
"Miss Ao Lin, hello!" Gu Han changed his words and greeted her, then ignored Liunian Lin, even though he instinctively felt that her appearance here was probably aimed at him.
"Hey, obedient disciple, aren't you curious why I'm here?" Liunian Lin leaned back and whispered.
"I'm not interested!" Gu Han dryly replied, then placed Qingpin, who was sleeping soundly in the baby carrier, on the chair next to him. Gu Han was very impressed that Qingpin could sleep so soundly on his chest, despite the bumpy position.
After settling Qingpin, Gu Han suddenly thought about the situation between Liunian Lin and her sword maiden, Yixian. Looking at the seat next to Liunian Lin, he saw a graceful girl sitting there, wearing a light, classical gauze dress, as if she had walked out of the Middle Ages.
"This sword maiden is definitely not Yixian!" Gu Han could make this judgment just by looking at her back. "But I witnessed the entire process of Liunian Lin and Yixian's synchronization. How could her sword maiden not be Yixian? Could it be that this sword maiden is not Liunian Lin's sword maiden, or did Liunian Lin replace her with an ancient sword-level sword maiden?"
"No, that's impossible. Replacing a sword maiden requires cutting the green silk. Even if the Liunian family is rich, they wouldn't use such a precious green silk on a mere ancient sword-level swordsman!" Gu Han immediately dismissed this guess, but he didn't know that at that moment, a Liunian family swordsman was setting out from the distant Yanjing City, carrying the precious green silk, intending to use it on this mere ancient sword-level swordsman.
"Classmates, I am your homeroom teacher for class 22694! My name is Luo Fan, the 'Luo' in 'wok' and the 'Fan' in 'sailboat.' Starting today, I will lead you, class 22694, through a whole year. During this year, you will be a collective, attending classes together, studying together, fighting together, and facing death together!"
"Our Yuzhang Academy has no fixed curriculum, no fixed teachers, and no fixed class times. If there is anything fixed, it is this classroom, your classmates, and me, your homeroom teacher."
"You are all adults. In your schools for minors, you have already learned enough cultural knowledge and basic knowledge of swordsmen, so we at Yuzhang Academy never teach these things. So, what does Yuzhang Academy teach you?" Luo Fan paused and wrote the words 'experience' on the blackboard.
"We only teach you experience: how to get along with your sword maiden, how to improve your sword essence, and most importantly, how to fight! All the experience I teach you will become the guarantee for your future survival!"
Homeroom teacher Luo Fan was passionately delivering his speech on the podium, which woke up Qingpin, who was sleeping soundly in the last row. She opened her eyes with some dissatisfaction, looking for the culprit who disturbed her dream. When she saw Luo Fan's face, she jumped onto the desk and excitedly shouted, "Gu Han, look, it's that pervert who wanted to kidnap Qingpin!"
Yes, this homeroom teacher Luo Fan was none other than the rude man who, two days ago, Gu Han and Qingpin had eaten over 80,000 yuan worth of food with at Chanel. He was unexpectedly also a swordsman and a teacher at Yuzhang Academy, Gu Han's homeroom teacher.
Qingpin's loud shouting immediately attracted the attention of all the classmates, including Luo Fan. Normally, being called a pervert would make him very angry, but when he saw Gu Han and Qingpin's faces, he laughed, thinking that the time for revenge had finally come.
"Classmate, please keep your sword maiden quiet, or I will ask you to leave the classroom!" Luo Fan threw out one of the classic lines of a homeroom teacher and continued his opening speech, seemingly forgetting that Gu Han had once cost him 80,000 RMB.
Luo Fan's speech lasted about thirty minutes, and by the time he finished, everyone's heads were spinning. He finally ended his long speech and moved on to the next step.
"During the year starting today, we, class 22694, will be a fighting collective, a collective that trusts each other, and a collective that can sacrifice everything for our companions. Therefore, getting to know each other is very important. Starting with me, each person will have three minutes to introduce themselves and their sword maiden!"
It seemed that no matter what kind of school or class, self-introductions were an inevitable part.
"My name is Luo Fan, the 'Luo' in 'wok' and the 'Fan' in 'sailboat.' I am your homeroom teacher, 33 years old, a sword-level swordsman, and I have two sword maidens: an ancient sword-level artificial water-blue sword and a sword-level artificial blazing sword. However, they are not here now, or you could have met them."
"Originally, I was not going to take a class this year. I planned to team up with a friend to clear out the Yuankou. The teacher assigned to lead you was another teacher, but he had bad luck. Two days ago, while escorting goods, he was beheaded by the Yuankou. So, I had to take over for a year. My personality is very outgoing, and I like drinking. If any of you want to bribe me, just bring me some alcohol! Hahaha!"
Luo Fan spoke very casually, but the content of his words shocked everyone and made them feel a bit melancholic. It turned out that the teacher originally assigned to their class had been killed by the Yuankou just three days ago! Could they, too, one day, like that teacher, be expecting a peaceful life one moment and be separated from the world the next?
"Alright, since you chose to become swordsmen and enjoy a life above the ordinary, you must also bear the responsibility above the ordinary. There's nothing to fear about death; it's better than living a mediocre life in the base city forever. Student number one, come up and introduce yourself!"
"Yes, Teacher Luo!" A young man in his twenties, wearing glasses, walked up to the podium with his sword maiden. He was clearly the first student of class 22694.
"Hello, everyone. My name is Chen Yongsheng, the 'Chen' in 'Chen Shuangjian,' the 'Yong' in 'Yongquan Jian,' and the 'Sheng' in 'Shengxia Jian.' I have always aspired to become a swordsman who fights for humanity. After many setbacks and failures, I finally successfully synchronized with my sword maiden four days ago and became a true swordsman!"
"The one next to me is my sword maiden, an ancient sword-level artificial white-iron sword. Although she is somewhat quiet, she is my most trusted companion, and I hope we can always be together!"
"Besides wanting to become a swordsman, I also want to be a poet. I have written many poems, and a few have been published in the Yuzhang Daily. I will now read the poem I am most satisfied with: 'The stars in the sky follow the Big Dipper, you walk, I walk, we all walk. When we see injustice, we roar, and the Yuankou hang themselves on the southeastern branch.'"
During his three-minute self-introduction, Student Number One, Chen Yongsheng, spent a significant portion of the time reciting his own poetry. Gu Han was very skeptical about whether it was a reliable choice for such a poet-like old boy to become a swordsman.
However, Chen Yongsheng's poetry did a good job of livening up the atmosphere in the classroom. The other students, in a joyful mood, took turns going up to the podium to introduce themselves.
Gu Han silently recorded the speeches of his classmates and made some statistics.
Excluding himself, Song Hamma, and Liunian Lin, among the remaining twenty-seven students, only one had a natural sword maiden, while the rest had artificial sword maidens.
Among these artificial sword maidens, the three initial sword maidens—Qingfeng, Baite, and Balian—accounted for twenty. This well illustrated why the game chose these three swords as initial sword maidens, as two-thirds of the ancient sword-level swordsmen in the world used these three initial sword maidens.
However, this did not mean that the initial sword maidens were weak. In terms of data, the three initial sword maidens were in the upper-middle range among all ancient sword-level sword maidens.
Gu Han remembered the faces and names of these twenty-six students with artificial sword maidens, but he was not very interested in them. In his mind, unless a miracle happened, the future and development of swordsmen with artificial sword maidens were not worth mentioning. Only those with natural sword maidens were the companions he would pay attention to and befriend!
Don't think Gu Han is harsh; all swordsmen in the world are like this.